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Borough of Southwark
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Depositions of Witnesses taken at the
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23d. day of August
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1788
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then and there lying
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maketh Oath and
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saith about 11 Oclock Yesterday Morning he went
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down to Pickle Herring Stairs in the said parish
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that when he came down to said Stairs he saw a
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over his afore that
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the deced was put
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Sworn before me this
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23d. day of August 1788}
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T: Shelton
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